Hail, Iron
- When
- April 13, 5:25 PM CST
- Where
- Iron County, 5 mi SW of Ironton
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $100
- Coordinates
- 37.550, -90.700
Hail in Missouri, April 13, 1998
Golfball size hail broke a windshield on a car at Taum Sauk State Park.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LSX wrote it up.
Golfball size hail broke a windshield on a car at Taum Sauk State Park.
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:24 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, April 13, 1998
- Hail in California, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Kentucky, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Wildfire in Wisconsin, April 13, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- High Wind in Alaska, April 13 to 14, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 13, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 13, 1998
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, April 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5636447.